On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Erez Zadok wrote:
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I'm not very happy with this.
CodingStyle should be about the big issues, not about details.
Yes, we've messed that up
On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 12:40 -0700, Schmidt, Kenneth P wrote:
The best example of how this can be useful is to allow a heterogeneous
environment which uses a common filesystem. For example, both x86_64 and
power systems could mount a root nfs share and execute with a common set of
Hello, Eric.
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Mostly I am thinking that any non-object model users should have
their own dedicated wrapper layer. To help keep things consistent
and to make it hard enough to abuse the system that people will
find that it is usually easier to do it the right
On Friday 28 September 2007, you wrote:
My Toshiba Satellite A40 (i386, P4 Mobile) hangs during boot after:
With 'hpet-force-enable-on-ich34' reverted the system boots OK again.
We're not yet done though. It now fails to resume from suspend and there's
also the BUG (see subject) during power
Hi Andreas,
On Friday 28 September 2007, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
The name path_put_conditional (formerly, dput_path) is a little unclear.
Replace (path_put_conditional + path_put) with path_walk_put_both,
put a pair of paths after a path_walk (see the kerneldoc).
^
So
Let's kill it, please. (i.e., ACK)
But ... why? What value could needless parens provide?
Who says that needless parens could provide value?
Jean, which is why he submitted the patch.
You, implicitly, by acking a patch saying those parens are bad.
But not me ... I don't think this
Wolfgang Erig wrote:
Hi Peter,
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 11:35:53AM +0200, Wolfgang Erig wrote:
I start again with a fresh tree and better controlled experiments.
now the result of bisection seems to be consistent.
The last good commit is
f2d98ae63dc64dedb00499289e13a50677f771f9 Linker
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:30:15 -0700 David Brownell wrote:
Let's kill it, please. (i.e., ACK)
But ... why? What value could needless parens provide?
Who says that needless parens could provide value?
Jean, which is why he submitted the patch.
You, implicitly, by acking a patch
David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Let's kill it, please. (i.e., ACK)
But ... why? What value could needless parens provide?
Who says that needless parens could provide value?
Jean, which is why he submitted the patch.
You, implicitly, by acking a patch saying those parens
Hi Andrew,
The compilation with the cross compiler for the PowerPC-405 on the powerbox
fails at linking
LD init/built-in.o
LD .tmp_vmlinux1
ld: arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o(.text+0x80c8): sibling call optimization to
`.text.init.refok' does not allow automatic multiple TOCs;
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Theodore Tso writes:
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 03:56:38PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
It'd be a start just to revert CodingStyle to its original content and
move the rest to CodingStyleReference. But someone would want to skim
through the CodingStyle history
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Two 00-INDEX files under Documentation/w1
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Documentation/w1/00-INDEX |8
Documentation/w1/masters/00-INDEX |6 ++
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
--- /dev/null 2007-04-23
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:18:05 PDT, Linus Torvalds said:
CodingStyle should be about the big issues, not about details. Yes,
we've messed that up over the years, but let's not continue that.
In other words, I'd suggest *removing* lines from CodingStyle, not adding
them. The file has already
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 05:07:19PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
Winchip: can any of these CPUs with ooostores do SMP? If not, then smp_wmb
can also be a simple barrier on i386 too.
The IDT Winchip can do SMP apparently.
From the Winchip3 (which was the final winchip) specs..
The IDT
On 9/29/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 05:37:29PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
Hi,
The kernel report warnings about sysfs filename duplicate under
rc8-mm1 and rc8-mm2.
1.
cut
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI:
On 9/29/07, Florian Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My goal is to hack up oss2jack [3] to use ALSA pcm devices.. And a later goal
is to create a virtual ALSA soundcard [which would multiplex access to a real
non hw-mixing capable soundcard] to finally end the dmix software mixing woes
linux
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Erez Zadok wrote:
Would you prefer if CodingStyle was reorganized or even split into (1)
general principles and (2) details? Perhaps we need a CodingStylePrinciples
and a CodingStyleDetails?
I'm certainly ok with the split into two files.
What I'm not ok with is
Hi Ulrich,
On Friday 28 September 2007 18:34, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
One more small change to extend the availability of creation of
file descriptors with FD_CLOEXEC set. Adding a new command to
fcntl() requires no new system call and the overall impact on
code size if minimal.
Tangential
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Linus Torvalds writes:
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Erez Zadok wrote:
Documentation/CodingStyle | 88
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I'm not very happy with this.
CodingStyle should be about the big issues, not about details. Yes,
we've
From: Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 08:19:42AM -0700
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 05:37:29PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
Hi,
The kernel report warnings about sysfs filename duplicate under
rc8-mm1 and rc8-mm2.
1.
cut
sysfs: duplicate filename 'usbcore' can not
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I kind of meant the *maintainers* couldn't whine about things not in
CodingStyle ;)
No, I understood you.
I'm personally of the opinion that the automated style checking, and
having detailed rules is always a mistake.
It's *much* better to
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 10:24:01PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:18:05 PDT, Linus Torvalds said:
CodingStyle should be about the big issues, not about details. Yes,
we've messed that up over the years, but let's not continue that.
In other words, I'd suggest
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 10:11:45PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
...
The second is the more controversial suggestion.
In several Makefile we have simple if expression of the variants:
if ($(CONFIG_FOO),y)
obj-$(CONFIG_BAR) += fubar.o
endif
The pattern varies over this theme.
The suggestion
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think there needs to be a sense of fairness attached here - CodingStyle
should cover all the stuff maintainers/reviewers are allowed to whinge about.
No.
People whine too much as is. Don't give them *license* to do so.
Linus
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:22:20 PDT, Andrew Morton said:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc8/2.6.23-rc8-mm2/
Locks up hard at very early boot on my Dell Latitude - grub says loading
kernel, the screen clears, and we lock up before we get penguins.
-rc8-mm1 was
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 03:56:38PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
It'd be a start just to revert CodingStyle to its original content and
move the rest to CodingStyleReference. But someone would want to skim
through the CodingStyle history for any legimate corrections that we
want to keep.
How
Hi,
The hci_sysfs uses work queue to finish the sysfs add/del fuction.
But when the same device connection failed, if another connection of
same device come in before the delete work finish, sysfs will warn
about duplicate filename creating.
Sep 19 12:30:27 darkstar kernel: sysfs: duplicate
On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 10:28 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
+struct __mark_marker;
Hi Mathieu,
How about, struct marker. You've taken the marker* namespace, so
all these underscores are __gratuitious__ :)
+/*
+ * module_mutex nests inside markers_mutex. Markers mutex protects the
On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 10:36 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Make the vt return to the system default when it is reset.
Also make UTF-8 the system default.
It's about time we do, so this is fine with me.
Tony
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On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 03:51:56 PDT, Andrew Morton said:
Printing something like
bytes remaining: 0x12 (18)
is a quite logical thing to do, although pretty darm pointless.
On the other hand, printing this:
magic number: 0x2710
probably doesn't ring any bells, but if you
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 07:05:14PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
--
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Gautham R Shenoy wrote:
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU_BOOST
+/*
+ * Task state with respect to being RCU-boosted. This state is changed
+ * by the task itself in response to the following
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The existing Documentation/SM501.txt gives no clue what the chip is or does,
so copy the description from Kconfig help text.
cc: Ben Dooks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Documentation/SM501.txt |5 +
1 file
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 03:28:48PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
Hi,
OK this was going to be a quick patch, but after sleeping on it, I think
it deserves a better analysis... I can prove the comment is incorrect with a
test program, but I'm not as sure about my thinking that leads me to call it
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add missing entries to Documentation/00-INDEX
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Documentation/00-INDEX | 17 -
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -r dc28e4e17791 Documentation/00-INDEX
---
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:00:01 PDT, Linus Torvalds said:
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think there needs to be a sense of fairness attached here - CodingStyle
should cover all the stuff maintainers/reviewers are allowed to whinge
about.
No.
People whine too much as
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:27:24 BST, Al Viro said:
... and no matter how many rules you put down, it's still possible to
write a code that will be awful stylistically while adhering to all of
them. Religiously.
I've run into those sort of programmers. Unfortunately, there's no real
cure for
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Linus Torvalds writes:
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Erez Zadok wrote:
Would you prefer if CodingStyle was reorganized or even split into (1)
general principles and (2) details? Perhaps we need a CodingStylePrinciples
and a CodingStyleDetails?
I'm certainly
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